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Occupational Illness

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Occupational Illness Aka: Occupational Illness, Occupational Disease, Occupational Disorder, Occupational Injury, Work-Related Illness, Work-Related Injury, Workplace Injury, Injured Worker II. History: Occupational Job History Employers (include part-time work) Job titles and responsibilities Construction […]

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Allergic Occupational Asthma

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Allergic Occupational Asthma Aka: Allergic Occupational Asthma, Latency-associated Occupational Asthma II. Pathophysiology Sensitization to specific workplace chemical Initial response delayed from weeks to years III. Causes: High […]

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Work-Related Asthma

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Work-Related Asthma Aka: Work-Related Asthma, Occupational Asthma, Work-Aggravated Asthma, Asthma in the Workplace, Occupational Lung Disease II. Epidemiology Occupational Asthma accounts for 15% of new Asthma cases in adults Estimated 1.9 million […]

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Latent Tuberculosis Treatment

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Latent Tuberculosis Treatment Aka: Latent Tuberculosis Treatment, Latent Tuberculosis, Latent Tb, Tuberculosis Prophylaxis, Tb Prophylaxis, LTBI II. Epidemiology Concurrent HIV Infection confers a 10% conversion to Active Tuberculosis per year (highest rate) Overall rate of […]

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Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Antigen-Specific Interferon-Gamma Release Assay

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Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Antigen-Specific Interferon-Gamma Release Assay Aka: Mycobacterium Tuberculosis Antigen-Specific Interferon-Gamma Release Assay, Tuberculosis Antigen-Specific Interferon-Gamma Release Assay, IGRA, IFN-Gamma Release Assay, Quantiferon-TB, QFIT-GIT, T-SPOT II. Indications Mycobacterium tuberculosis testing Low risk patients […]

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Tuberculosis

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Tuberculosis Aka: Tuberculosis, Mycobacterium tuberculosis, Tb II. Complications See Extrapulmonary Tuberculosis III. Epidemiology Worldwide Latent TuberculosisPrevalence: 2 Billion people One third of world population has Latent Tuberculosis Over half of […]

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High Altitude Pulmonary Edema

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High Altitude Pulmonary Edema Aka: High Altitude Pulmonary Edema, HAPE II. Epidemiology Incidence: 4% in travel above 15000 feet (4600 meters) Most common cause of death from […]